Last week I began again my classes at the University of Valencia, where I work part time. Since I started there I teach Operating Systems' laboratory lessons of the Second and Fourth years of the Computer Science Degree and fortunately all lessons but two are taught using Linux and the ones that are not given in Linux can be done using a DOS emulator like dosbox, so I don't have to use Windows ;)
My fist day at the Lab I found out that the Suse version they are using was updated (it's version 9.3); I noticed something weird when I saw the KDM theme, but it was absolutely obvious that it was a newer version when I logged in using my KDE session, as it was absolutely broken.
I was using the KDE session because it was the default one there and I used it only to open terminal windows and sometimes a graphical www browser.
As I was not interested in fixing my KDE environment I looked at the session options provided by KDM to see if I could use another desktop environment or a window manager and I found some options available, but neither GNOME (my current desktop) nor icewm (the Window Manager I used before) were between them.
After trying the available window managers I've decided to use openbox and I'm seriously thinking about getting rid of GNOME and use it as my default for graphical sessions at home.
I understand that users might like Desktop Environments, but I don't use them since I started to use Linux, which is funny because I was mostly a Macintosh user, but since I discovered the power of the command line what I want is a graphical environment that can be run using only the keyboard with minimal configuration, something I was able to do with icewm and I currently do with GNOME (although I under use the desktop facilities) and seems I will be able to do with openbox with the added bonus that the default key bindings are almost the same as the GNOME ones.
